Colourbox

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Hot Doggie 02:55 Tools
Pump Up the Volume (USA 12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
The Moon Is Blue 04:37 Tools
Just Give 'em Whiskey 04:19 Tools
Sleepwalker 02:16 Tools
Baby I Love You So 06:43 Tools
Say You 05:27 Tools
Shotgun 05:40 Tools
Breakdown 07:50 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On 07:39 Tools
Manic 03:34 Tools
Punch 05:01 Tools
Inside Informer 04:24 Tools
Baby I Love You So'' (featuring Lorita Grahame) 06:43 Tools
Arena 04:23 Tools
Edit The Dragon 02:20 Tools
Suspicion 04:27 Tools
Philip Glass 03:38 Tools
Looks Like We Shy One Horse (shoot out) 07:58 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 12'' 05:27 Tools
Arena II 05:02 Tools
Hipnition 03:29 Tools
Baby I Love You So (7" Version) 03:20 Tools
Justice 04:51 Tools
Keep On Pushing 03:42 Tools
Nation 09:58 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7" Mix) 03:12 Tools
Just Give ‘em Whiskey 04:19 Tools
Tarantula 03:43 Tools
the official colourbox world cup theme 03:03 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 12" 05:27 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12" Mix) 06:41 Tools
Baby I Love You So 12" 00:00 Tools
Tarantula (12" Version 1) 07:02 Tools
Sleepwalker (Remastered) 02:15 Tools
Fast Dump 05:40 Tools
Sex Gun 00:00 Tools
Arena 2 04:54 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (12" Version) 05:27 Tools
Breakdown (Original 12" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Looks Like We're Shy One Horse/Shoot Out 00:00 Tools
Manic II 00:00 Tools
Looks Like We're Shy One Horse/Shoot Out (Remastered) 07:58 Tools
Tarantula (7" Version 1) 03:47 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7" Version) 03:06 Tools
Unofficial World Cup Theme 05:24 Tools
Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S 07:13 Tools
Say You (Remastered) 03:57 Tools
Tarantula (12" Version 1) (Remastered) 06:57 Tools
Sex Gun (Demo) 04:16 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (Remastered) 04:36 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12" Version) (Remastered) 06:43 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12" Version) 00:00 Tools
Shadows in the Room 04:49 Tools
Edit The Dragon (Remastered) 02:43 Tools
Arena (Remastered) 04:25 Tools
Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse 00:30 Tools
Inside Informer (Remastered) 04:25 Tools
Baby I Love You So [12"] 06:43 Tools
Hipnition (Remastered) 03:06 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (12" Version) (Remastered) 05:27 Tools
The Official World Cup Theme 05:28 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On (12" Version) 05:47 Tools
Say You (12" Version) 05:27 Tools
Punch (7" Version) 05:01 Tools
Breakdown (12" Version 1) (Remastered) 06:16 Tools
Looks Like We're Shy One Horse (7" Version) 04:38 Tools
The Moon is Blue (12" Version) 06:11 Tools
Sex Gun (Remastered) 04:08 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (7" Version) 04:35 Tools
Fast Dump (12" Version) 05:23 Tools
Punch (Remastered) 05:00 Tools
Suspicion (Remastered) 04:27 Tools
Manic (Remastered) 02:26 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (7" Version) (Remastered) 04:35 Tools
Say You (7" Version) 04:21 Tools
Fast Dump (Remastered) 05:40 Tools
Arena (Extended Version) 05:01 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (12" Version) (Remastered) 06:11 Tools
Say You (12" Version) (Remastered) 05:28 Tools
Punch (12" Version) 05:42 Tools
Hot Doggie (Remastered) 02:57 Tools
Breakdown (12" Version 1) 06:17 Tools
Breakdown (12 Version 1) (Remastered) 04:09 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7") 00:00 Tools
Keep On Pushing (7" Version) 03:48 Tools
Shotgun (Remastered) 05:40 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On (7" Version) 02:40 Tools
Nation (Remastered) 09:59 Tools
Breakdown (12" Version 2) 07:53 Tools
Fast Dump (12" Version) (Remastered) 05:25 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On (12" Version) (Remastered) 05:49 Tools
Arena II (Remastered) 05:01 Tools
Fast Dump (7" Version) 04:09 Tools
Justice (Remastered) 04:49 Tools
Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Shoot Out 03:21 Tools
Baby I Love You So (Original Mix) 05:54 Tools
Tarantula (7" First Version) 03:47 Tools
Manic II (Remastered) 05:53 Tools
Keep On Pushing (Remastered) 05:20 Tools
Pump Up the Volume (USA 12) 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Volume 06:47 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7" Version) (Remastered) 03:09 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 12 03:45 Tools
Tarantula (7" Version 1) (Remastered) 03:45 Tools
Arena (Extended Version) (Remastered) 04:59 Tools
Philip Glass (Remastered) 03:32 Tools
Breakdown (7" Version 1) 04:14 Tools
Tarantula (12" first version) 07:02 Tools
Manic (instrumental mix) 03:34 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme [12"] 05:27 Tools
Breakdown (7" First Version) 04:14 Tools
Breakdown (12 Version 2) (Remastered) 02:43 Tools
Fast Dump (12 Version) (Remastered) 03:47 Tools
Tarantula (7" Second Version) 04:17 Tools
Breakdown (7" Version 1) (Remastered) 04:14 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On (7" Version) (Remastered) 02:40 Tools
Breakdown (12" first version) 06:16 Tools
Tarantula (12" Version 2) 08:15 Tools
Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 05:24 Tools
Tarantula (12" Second Version) 08:15 Tools
Breakdown (7" Second Version) 03:59 Tools
Tarantula (7" Version 2) 04:17 Tools
The Official World Cup Theme (Hymn) 04:38 Tools
Breakdown (12" Second Version) 07:53 Tools
Low Rider (BBC Session) 02:58 Tools
Looks Like We're Shy One Horse (7" Version) (Remastered) 04:38 Tools
Keep On Pushing (7" Version) (Remastered) 03:48 Tools
Tarantula (7" Version 2) (Remastered) 04:17 Tools
Tarantula (12" Version 2) (Remastered) 08:15 Tools
Breakdown (12" Version 2) (Remastered) 07:51 Tools
Punch (BBC Session) 03:52 Tools
The Look Of Love (BBC Session) 02:52 Tools
Shadows In The Room (Remastered) 04:59 Tools
Say You (7" Version) (Remastered) 04:21 Tools
Bleach (BBC Session) 03:58 Tools
Water Up The Tap (BBC Session) 04:54 Tools
Moon Is Blue 00:00 Tools
Kill It (BBC Session) 03:38 Tools
Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse / Shoot Out 09:58 Tools
Punch (12" Version) (Remastered) 05:40 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On (BBC Session) 02:44 Tools
The Wanderer (BBC Session) 02:43 Tools
Breakdown (7" Version 2) (Remastered) 03:59 Tools
Fast Dump (7" Version) (Remastered) 04:09 Tools
Breakdown [Original 12"] 06:16 Tools
Baby I Love You So (7'' Version) 03:20 Tools
Breakdown [12"] 07:50 Tools
Breakdown (Original 12") 00:00 Tools
Baby I Love You So (7" Version) [Remastered] 03:57 Tools
We Walk Around The Streets 00:24 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme [7" Mix] 00:00 Tools
Breakdown (7" Version 2) 03:59 Tools
Pump Up The Volume [USA 12"] 06:47 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (7'' Version) 04:35 Tools
tarantula (7" version one) 03:44 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (12") 00:00 Tools
arena 1 03:57 Tools
Baby I Love You So [12" Mix] 06:41 Tools
Baby I Love You So - 12" 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Volume (USA 12") 07:02 Tools
Manic (remix) 03:15 Tools
Breakdown [Original 12" Mix] 00:00 Tools
Breakdown (7" version) 03:57 Tools
Looks Like We're Shy One Horse: Shoot Out 07:58 Tools
Rolling In The Deep 04:52 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme - 7" 07:58 Tools
Bleach 03:45 Tools
Baby I Love You So [Original Mix] 05:54 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme [12-Inch] 05:29 Tools
Tarantula (12 Version 1) 05:29 Tools
Breakdown (12") 00:00 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12” Mix) 06:41 Tools
Breakdown - Original 12" 00:00 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7” Mix) 03:12 Tools
Phillip Glass 03:37 Tools
Tarantula (12" Version) 07:00 Tools
Breakdown (12" Version) 06:16 Tools
Breakdown (7" Version One) 03:57 Tools
Breakdown (Original 12” Mix) 03:52 Tools
Baby, I Love You So 06:43 Tools
Tarantula (7'' Version One) 00:00 Tools
Baby I Love You So - 12'' 06:41 Tools
Philip Glass/The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 06:36 Tools
Breakdown (Razormaid) 06:13 Tools
Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse (Shoot Out) 03:47 Tools
M/A/R/R/S: Pump Up The Volume - USA 12'' 06:47 Tools
the official colourbox world cup theme [12''] 05:27 Tools
Tarantula (Original) 03:43 Tools
Keep Me Pouring Like Water Up The Tap 03:43 Tools
Colourbox - The Official World Cup Theme 05:22 Tools
M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume - USA 12" 05:22 Tools
Tarantula (Second Version) 04:37 Tools
Breakdown - Original 12'' 06:16 Tools
World Cup Theme 05:49 Tools
Baby I Love You So 12' 06:43 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 12' 00:00 Tools
Punch [BBC Session] 03:52 Tools
You Keep Me Hangin' On (Japanese edition) 05:38 Tools
Hymn 05:21 Tools
Arena [Extended Version] 05:01 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On [BBC Session] 02:44 Tools
The Wanderer [BBC Session] 02:43 Tools
The Look Of Love [BBC Session] 02:52 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12') 03:57 Tools
Kill It [BBC Session] 03:39 Tools
Breakdown (Original) 03:57 Tools
Tarantula (7" Version 1)(Remastered) 03:47 Tools
Pump Up the Volume (USA 12'') 03:57 Tools
Bleach [BBC Session] 03:58 Tools
Water Up The Tap [BBC Session] 04:54 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme 7" 03:12 Tools
Tarantula (12'' Extended Remix) 02:43 Tools
We Found Love 05:37 Tools
Low Rider [BBC Session] 02:58 Tools
Breakdown (second version) 07:48 Tools
Official Colourbox World Cup Theme - 7'' 02:43 Tools
Maniac 02:44 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12'') 06:41 Tools
The Moon Is Blue 12" 06:10 Tools
Breakdown 12' 07:50 Tools
Baby I Love You So (Chosen by Trevor Jackson) 02:52 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On 12" 05:49 Tools
Twilight Zone 05:58 Tools
Pump Up the Volume [USA 12" Mix] 02:58 Tools
Hot Doggie - Colourbox 07:50 Tools
Looks Like Were Shy One Horse Shoot Out 07:50 Tools
Say You (Extended) 00:00 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging On (Ultimix) (BPM 140) (A-2) 06:43 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme - 7'' 03:10 Tools
Baby I Love You So 12 02:58 Tools
M/A/R/R/S: Pump Up the Volume USA 12" 02:58 Tools
Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7 Mix) 02:58 Tools
Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (England) 02:58 Tools
You Keep Me Hanging 02:58 Tools
The Official Colourbox World C 02:58 Tools
Breakdown (12" Mix) 04:19 Tools
Colourbox World Cup Theme 00:00 Tools
Baby I Love You So (Featuring Lorita Grahame) 06:43 Tools
Just Give'em Whisky 06:43 Tools
Tarantula (1982) 06:58 Tools
Breakdown (Original 12 Mix) 06:43 Tools
baby i love you so' (featuring lorita grahame) 06:43 Tools
Breakdown (12 inch mix) 06:58 Tools
Say You. 00:30 Tools
baby i love you so [12''] 06:43 Tools
Sexgun 06:43 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (12'' version) 05:27 Tools
Fast Dump (Extended) 05:42 Tools
Fast Dump (7" Version 04:09 Tools
Punch (extended version) 05:36 Tools
Breakdown (12'') 05:42 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (12'') 05:27 Tools
Sleepwalker/Just Give 'Em Whiskey/Say You/The Moon Is Blue/Inside Informer 06:43 Tools
Tarantula (7 Version One) 03:44 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7-inch Mix) 00:30 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (Extended) 06:12 Tools
Tarantula (Ext) 07:58 Tools
Say You 12" 05:29 Tools
Breakdown (Second Version) (Extended Remix) 07:50 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7inch Version) 05:29 Tools
Tarantula (Extended) 06:57 Tools
M/A/R/R/S / Pump Up The Volume (USA 12") 06:57 Tools
Tarantula (7" Version) 00:00 Tools
breakdown (extended mix) 00:00 Tools
Official Colourbox World Cup T 04:09 Tools
Baby I Love You So [12] 03:10 Tools
Keep Me Pouring Like Water 04:43 Tools
breakdown [12''] 07:50 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7'') 03:12 Tools
sex gun [demo] 04:23 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12inch Mix) 04:23 Tools
Just Give Em' Whiskey 04:19 Tools
Tarantula (12” Version 1) 04:19 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (12" Mix) 05:27 Tools
Looks Like We're Shy One Horse/Shootout 07:58 Tools
Just Give ’Em Whiskey 00:00 Tools
Looks Like We‚re Shy One Horse / Shoot Out 00:00 Tools
punch (extended) 05:40 Tools
M/A/R/R/S: Pump Up the Volume - USA 12" 05:40 Tools
colourbox 05:40 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme [7'' Version] 04:43 Tools
Baby I Love You So (7” Version) 06:47 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (Extended Version) 04:43 Tools
MAD 509 A 11:14 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12-inch) 11:14 Tools
Manic 2 11:14 Tools
colourbox-the moon is blue 07:58 Tools
Pump Up the Volume (USA 12” Mix) 00:00 Tools
Fast Dump 12" 05:25 Tools
Punch 12" 05:41 Tools
Tarantula I (12" Version) 05:27 Tools
Just Give Œem Whiskey 05:27 Tools
Keep Pouring Me Like Water Up The Tap 05:27 Tools
Breakdown [Original 12'' Version] 05:36 Tools
You Keep Me Hangin On 05:36 Tools
Hot Doggie (HQ Audio) 00:30 Tools
Colourbox - Philip Glass 05:36 Tools
Breakdown (Razormaid Version) 06:47 Tools
Looks Like We Shy One Horse 07:58 Tools
Tarantula (7” First Version) 07:58 Tools
Low Rider 07:58 Tools
Breakdown (Original 12'' Mix) 06:16 Tools
Tarantula (Extended Mix) 06:57 Tools
Baby I Love You So [12'' Version] 06:41 Tools
Colourbox - Hot Doggie 02:57 Tools
Philip Glass/World Cup Theme 05:23 Tools
The official world cup theme hymn 05:23 Tools
Tarantula (Second Version) (Extended Remix) 05:23 Tools
Tarantula (7'' Second Version) 05:23 Tools
The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (12' Version) 02:57 Tools
Breakdown (7'' Second Version) 02:57 Tools
Nation (Album) 04:01 Tools
tarantula 1st version [12''] 07:00 Tools
Manic (A.D.A.M.BABY! RMX) 07:00 Tools
the official world cup theme(hymn) 07:00 Tools
CAD 508 B 21:52 Tools
The Moon Is Blue (12") 06:47 Tools
Breakdown (12'' Second Version) 06:47 Tools
M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume [USA 12'' Version] 21:52 Tools
The Moon Is Blue 1985 21:52 Tools
CAD 508 A 19:25 Tools
Punch/Suspicion/Manic/You Keep Me Hanging On/Arena 19:25 Tools
Pump Up The Volume (USA 12-inch Mix) 06:47 Tools
Baby I Love You So (12 version) 06:47 Tools
Tarantula (12'' Second Version) 06:47 Tools
Breakdown (original 12'') 06:16 Tools
Tarantula (Extended Remix) 08:12 Tools
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Colourbox were an English electronic musical group on the 4AD label, releasing a number of records between 1982 and 1987. The band was formed by musicians brothers' Martyn and Steve Young and Ian Robbins, along with vocalist Debian Curry. Curry and Robbins departed the band in 1983; with the role of vocalist being filled by Lorita Grahame from that point on. Colourbox stood apart from, their then 4AD labelmates, bands such as, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, and This Mortal Coil (although the Young brothers contributed to tracks on the latter project's first two albums It'll End in Tears and Filigree & Shadow). Their sound was eclectic, drawing from reggae and soul influences (with covers of tracks by U-Roy and Augustus Pablo released as singles), beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed soul, as well as a fusion of far-ranging influences spanning from classic R&B, to dub and industrial. Following their debut single "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" in late 1982 (and a 1983 remake with new and permanent vocalist Lorita Grahame), a four-track mini-album simply titled Colourbox was released in November 1983, displaying the band's fledgling experimental sound. After a handful of singles, Colourbox's first full-length studio album - also self-titled - followed in August 1985, which further refined the band's diverse palette, mixing sample-splattered power-punk instrumentals with elegiac piano pieces ("Just Give 'em Whiskey" and "Sleepwalker" respectively), commercial pop ("The Moon Is Blue" and "Suspicion") and more reggae and soul covers (U-Roy's "Say You" and The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On"). It was to remain the band's only full-length album. In 1986, the band issued two completely different singles simultaneously on the same day: one was an instrumental initially intended as a FIFA World Cup anthem of that year ("The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme"); the other, a cover of Jacob Miller's "Baby I Love You So," featured third member Lorita Grahame on vocals. The same year, 4AD issued the 1983 mini-LP on CD for the first time, with the 12" versions of both of these singles added, along with the B-side "Looks Like We're Shy One Horse / Shoot Out" and the previous non-album single "Breakdown". The band had an international hit in 1987 with "Pump Up the Volume", a collaboration with A.R. Kane under the name M/A/R/R/S. The song was notable for being constructed almost entirely from samples of other records, a novelty for a popular record at that time, though Colourbox themselves been using sampling extensively since their 1983 mini-album. The pressures of sudden success and the long-running litigation caused by the use of samples resulted in the band never recording as Colourbox again. For a brief time following Colourbox's dissolution, Martyn Young served as a producer on records by acts as diverse as The Christians and fellow labelmates The Wolfgang Press, whilst former singer Lorita Grahame lent her vocals to a record released by short-lived One Little Indian act Hit the Roof (on a cover of Edwin Starr's "Contact"). Since then, little has been heard from any of the group members, save for a brief return to promotional duties for Martyn Young in 2001, to oversee the release of the Colourbox compilation Best of Colourbox 82/87. 4AD released a self-titled box set of four compact discs, compiling all of their catalogue (the full-length album with its companion remix album in full, a 7" mix CD, a 12" mix CD, and the first EP with two BBC Radio sessions and a previously unreleased mix of "Arena") on 21 May 2012. The collection, marking the 30th anniversary of the group, was sequenced by Martyn Young. In 2014, Colourbox were the subject of an exhibition, Music of the Band (1982 - 1987), curated by Wolfgang Tillmans at his Between Bridges gallery in Berlin. A compilation of 16 tracks selected by Tillmans was released by 4AD to tie in with the exhibition. Martyn Young has been playing additional keyboards, recording, producing and mixing the new Modern English album due for release in March 2016. Ian Robbins died in 2014. Steven Young died in 2016. Discography All released on the 4AD label. Chart placings shown are from the UK Indie Chart. Albums Colourbox (mini-album) (7 November 1983), No. 8 Vinyl (MAD315); CD (MAD315CD – released in 1986) Colourbox (album) (12 August 1985), No. 1 Vinyl LP (CAD508); CD (CAD508CD); cassette (CADC508) Colourbox (12 August 1985) – free mini-album included with first 10,000 copies of CAD508 Vinyl LP (MAD509) Singles "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" (November 1982) – featuring Debian Curry and Ian Robbins 7" (AD215); 12" (BAD215) "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" (second version) (May 1983) 7" (AD304); 12" (BAD304) "Say You" / "Fast Dump" (March 1984), No. 7 7" (AD403); 12" (BAD403) "Punch" / "Keep on Pushing" (June 1984), No. 15 7" (AD406); 12" (BAD406) "The Moon Is Blue" / "You Keep Me Hanging On" (15 July 1985), No. 3 7" (AD507); 12" (BAD507) "Baby I Love You So" / "Looks Like We're Shy One Horse" / "Shoot Out" (14 April 1986), No. 4 7" (AD604); 12" (BAD604) "The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme" / "Philip Glass" (14 April 1986), No. 6 7" (AD605); 12" (BAD605) Compilations Lonely Is an Eyesore (15 June 1987) Vinyl (CAD703); CD 9CAD703CD) - 4AD label sampler included the exclusive track "Hot Doggie" Best of Colourbox 82/87 (15 October 2001) CD (GAD2107CD) Colourbox (14 May 2012) 4-CD box set (CAD 3204 CD) Music of the Band (1982 - 1987) (2014) CD (TAD 3443) Read more on Last.fm. 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